Deployment with Docker

Service Discovery in depth

Since we don't want to deal with this fragile system of keeping and maintaining hardcoded IP addresses, we need to figure out a way so our connections are flexible and require no adjustments from the client if the target service dies or a new one is created. It would also be nice if each connection to the same service is equally balanced between all instances of the same service. Ideally, our services would look something like this:

For this exact use case for the Internet, DNS was created so that clients would have a way to find servers even if the IP address or network changes from anywhere in the world. As an ...